Kevin Oliver is an Emmy award-winning New York City and Los Angeles based editor of documentary films, commercial videos, investigative new videos, reality & documentary TV series, behind-the-scenes featurettes, social media videos, and more. He is also a multimedia producer, story producer, and story consultant. He got his start working alongside renowned documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles of the Maysles Brothers (Grey Gardens, Gimme Shelter, The Gates) and has since worked as an editor on several short and feature-length films. Recent documentary work includes behind-the-scenes documentaries for Disney, Netflix, and AMC as well as video retrospectives for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Most recently, he has worked as an Editor for Vox Media’s NowThis News for their sponsored documentary video series. He is a freelance Senior Editor for The New York Times where he has edited several documentary and news video series: Stressed Election, Quarantine Diaries, and Diary of a Song. He was the editor of AMC’s “Legal Ethics With Kim Wexler” for the TV series Better Call Saul, which won an Emmy for Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series in 2020. His editing on The New York Times’ series Stressed Election is nominated for a 2021 News & Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Editing: News. He is the editor of Soledad, a feature-length documentary following three inmates after their release from one of California's most violent and overcrowded prisons, and most recently co-edited Voices Beyond The Wall, following a group of orphaned teenage girls living in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, murder capital of the world, as they learn to write poetry about their lives. He has edited for Alex Gibney's production company Jigsaw, Spike Lee's editor Sam Pollard, and Sundance Award-winners Michele Stephenson and Joe Brewster. As a multimedia story producer and editor he has worked on several projects including War Ink, an interactive website on Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and their tattoos, This is Watts, an oral history project and radio broadcast which broadcast on NPR, and Stonewall Forever, a documentary and living monument in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. His work as an editor on music documentaries includes The New York Times’ Diary of a Song (featuring Billie Eilish, Lizzo, Kacey Musgraves, and Prince) and Broken Record, an Apple Music documentary series on songs that have made a social and political impact (featuring Patti Smith, Bono, Keith Richards, and Sheryl Crow.) His documentary shorts and infographic videos for news and social media issues platform ATTN: have received tens of millions of views. He has also edited for widely followed social media platforms such as Vice, Refinery29, BuzzFeed, BigThink, Upworthy, Mic, Brut, Tastemade, and Zoe Saldana's social media production company, BESE. His work as a commercial video editor has appeared everywhere from national ad campaigns to a billboard in Times Square for clients including Netflix, HBO, National Geographic, Adobe, Paypal, TED Talks, Pandora, Sephora, Lyft, Salesforce, Clif Bar, Men's Health, and The Cooking Channel. As a TV editor he has worked on shows for Nickelodeon, and various documentary series. His work as a trailer and funding reel editor has earned numerous filmmaking grants from organizations including Cal Humanities, Pacific Pioneer, ITVS and fellowships from Film Independent's Documentary Lab, the Camden International Film Festival's Points North Documentary Forum, and the Paley Center's Documentary Pitch Competition. In addition to making films, he records and conducts oral history interviews across the country for StoryCorps, a National Public Radio and Peabody Award-winning project dedicated to preserving the stories of everyday Americans at the Library of Congress. His work as a radio editor has been broadcast on NPR, WNYC, KPCC, KQED, KALW, and PRI's The World.
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